In mid-February of the fifth year of the Great Ming Dynasty, there was a hint of warmth in the cold wind blowing from the north, and the once iron-like ice melted a little. Under the rocky ice, the long and intermittent dripping sounds of water could be heard on a quiet and cold night. The Ponu Army, which was powerful in the Pinu Army in Zhenhu Fort, moved its body lazily in the morning breeze. The dawn was like fire, burning the clouds wandering between the mountains.

Although Lu Xiangsheng had a very clear guess about the attack route of the Jurchen coalition, he did not expect the courage and resilience of the Jurchen attack. As the leader of the Jurchens attacking Zhenhu Fort, Yue Tuo did not hesitate to withstand the pressure and delayed the attack for seven days in order to pacify Zhenhu Fort. Yue Tuo was a veteran who participated in the battle with the Baishan Mountains of the Po Nu Army the previous year. He knew very well the strength of his opponent. Especially Zhang Ping'an, the commander of the Po Nu Army, made Yue Tuo even scared from the bottom of his heart.

Faced with the attack of the million-strong army of the Jurchen coalition and the million-strong Mongolian coalition, Zhang Ping'an, who was only thirteen years old at the time, was not afraid at all. He used water-melting tactics to exhaust the Jurchen coalition's spirit, and then used Nurhaci's command error to completely defeat the Jurchen coalition's courage to fight. During the counterattack of the Slave Army, his strategy was linked one by one, completely defeating the backbone of the Jurchen people, Khan Nurhaci, who was the backbone of the Jurchens. The Slave Army's brand new tactics and weapons emerged one after another, and even the attack route was carefully arranged.

From all aspects, Yuetuo felt that Zhang Ping'an, the grassland fox wolf, was so terrible that he was so terrifying that he was close to Zhuge Kongming in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Therefore, on the one hand, Yuetuo learned the lesson of the last time the Jurchen coalition was defeated, and he must not fight into a war of attrition. On the other hand, Yuetuo had to think clearly about the unpredictable situation in advance to avoid subsequent weakness in the war. The most deadly aspect was whether Zhang Ping'an, the commander of the Slave Army, would lead reinforcements to the battlefield at the critical moment of the war. If this was the case, the offensive morale of the Jurchen coalition would be severely hit. Zhang Ping'an's name would make the Jurchen coalition on the battlefield frightened.

In order to relieve Yuetuo's worries, the Jurchen wise Khan Nurhaci specially ordered the Jurchen to write in detail in the Ming Dynasty Yan Zhuochen and Lin Qian, Nanzhili, to collect extensive Ming intelligence. He also personally told Huang Taiji that Lin Qian, Songjiang Prefecture in Nanzhili, could be of great use. Although Lin Qian was not a Jurchen, Lin Qian paid the letter of fame in the Jurchen hinterland. Once Lin Qian dared to repent, Zhang Ping'an's vindictive scruples would have taken the lives of Lin Qian's whole family. Huang Taiji also agreed with this.

On February 15, the fifth year of Tianqi in the Ming Dynasty, the Jurchen army began to pave the way for the attack on Zhenhu Fort. Tens of thousands of Jurchen Aha paved the rivers and valleys like ants, and piled up sand and soil into the rivers under the whip of their master. The firewood was high. In just one hour, they leveled out the three-mile river to repair the Jurchen army into the attacking assembly site. The reason why Yuetuo gathered troops here was that this valley led to a few-shaped mountain pass in Zhenhu Fort, and could use high mountains to cover the sight of the defenders of Zhenhu Fort, so that the slave army would not understand the scale of the Jurchen army.

But there are benefits and must also be flaws here, that is, the attack passage at the mountain pass is too narrow, which is not conducive to the rapid passage of the army. So Yuetuo once again ordered the widening of the ridges on both sides to facilitate the attack of the Jurchen army. However, the river pass is only more than one mile away from the garrison camp under the Hu Fort of the Ponu Army Town, and the Jurchen Aha's action was immediately retaliated by the Ponu Army artillery team.

For anyone who dares to challenge the bottom line of the Slave Army, even if the person on the other side was their compatriots, the soldiers of the Slave Army would give a strong fight back. The Slave Army artillery team fired fire at the Aha slave who paved the road, on the one hand, slowed down the pace of the Jurchen attack, and on the other hand, determined the location for subsequent large-scale artillery bombardment. Just a dozen shots of shellings defeated Aha's spiritual will. Compared with the whip of their master, the fatal shrapnel gave Aha's more reason to escape.

Seeing the slaves who were retreating from the sea tide, Yue Tuo, the head coach of the Jurchen coalition, was helpless. This time he attacked Zhenhu Fort, the reason why he wanted to lead the troops was that his red flag-inlaid banner leader Beile was regarded by his tribe members as having gained the advantage of his defeat last year. Because of his hesitation in the decisive battle, the former flag-inlaid banner owner was deprived of the Red Flag banner owner by Nurhaci. This made Ji Tuo very angry. He once threatened that Yue Tuo could be the banner-inlaid banner owner before he was dry, which must be the hysteria caused by Yingming Han when he was seriously ill. In addition, he was incompatible with his father Daishan, and his father often ridiculed him.

Therefore, in order to dispel the rumors of the Jurchen nobles, Yue Tuo had to take on this chore. Yue Tuo had a bottom line in his heart, that is, winning the Zhenhu Fort was his greatest victory. As for whether he could win the Posou City, it didn't matter much. Even the wise and powerful wise Khan, who was wise and powerful, was unable to do such stupid things that were both presumptuous and taboo.

But Yuetuo did not kill and flee Aha. These slaves were laborers of various Jurchen noble families. If the losses were too great, he would pay the price for it. So Yuetuo ordered Aha to prepare straw bags to fill it with sand and pile up six straw bags behind the mountain pass to pave the road at night. The retreat of the Jurchens also caused the slave army to stop the artillery attack. They began to continue to test-fire near with live ammunition, and the unfinished positioning gunpoint marking has been implemented.

That night, the Jurchen Aha widened the mountain pass and launched an attack road in the dark, but the bright moonlight exposed their whereabouts. Yang Meimei, the deputy commander of the artillery team of the Slave Army, saw the action of the Jurchen coalition with his naked eyes. He quickly ran to the office room of Wang Hua in Zhenhubao, and saluted Wang Hua with a smile and asked for instructions: "Staff Officer Wang, the post of the post can't stand the Jurchens being rampant at night. Please order me to shoot a few shots?"

Sister Yang lowered his figure and asked him, the Staff General, for advice, which made Wang Hua very troubled. If he disagreed with Sister Yang's suggestions, he would be regarded as despising their authority by the leaders of the Pou Nu Army, and Wang Hua would find it difficult for him to gain a foothold in the Pou Nu Army in the future. Even if Marshal Zhang asked him to lead the army alone, he would be boycotted by other commanders. If Sister Yang wanted to fight, he agreed to fight the artillery team, and then he, the commander-in-chief of the Tiger Fort, would lose his due decision in this battle.

"Deputy Commander Yang's advice is quite good, but our Zhenhu Fortress has limited ammunition storage. You can hit 100* tonight as the upper limit. Don't waste it!"

Sister Yang slapped her thigh and said happily: "The people around us, the ones who come out of our Grand Marshal are just sensible, so we will follow the orders of Staff Wang!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Sister Yang ran to the cannon position with a gamble. During the day, the artillery team had already marked the positioning of the cannon point, and tonight was the time for the artillery team to show their skills. Sister Yang was not a real person, and he had already set up an ambush. Since he came to Zhenhu Fort, he asked the artillery team's baggage troops to send more remaining shells to each artillery position, in order to make his gunners enjoy their military achievements while enjoying it.

The gunners who fired tonight were all veterans who participated in the war, all of them were magic gunners. Sister Yang ordered three crossbows to be a general gun position and fire * in turn. He wanted to use the results of the artillery team training. The three crossbows exploded at the same time, causing Wang Hua to explode one * explosion effect. In this way, Wang Hua ordered to fire one hundred shells, and he could fire three hundred shells.

The sixty crossbows of the artillery team had just fired a volley, and Sister Yang's face turned green on the spot. The explosion was particularly conspicuous in the night. Unless everyone in the Pouzi Army was blind, he wanted to hide it as a fool who was stole the bell. The Qiang General of the Artillery Team under Wu Tianxing on the Shaanxi front line, He Yushu, disobeyed the military order, and was whipped directly into the Dead Soldiers' camp for crimes and made meritorious service. This notice has been known by the leaders of the Pouzi Army, so Sister Yang did not dare to disobey Wang Hua's military order.

Wang Hua, who was watching the battle at the command platform of Zhenhu Fort, also saw Yang Meimei's move. Fortunately, Yang Meimei issued an order in time to stop the artillery attack, avoiding the embarrassment of both sides. However, Wang Hua admired Yang Meimei's artillery team's innovative tactics. This tactic is very practical on the battlefield, at least in dealing with the enemy's assembly of military formations.

The artillery attack of the Pou Nu Army's artillery team still made the Jurchen Aha frightened. They dispersed again and decided that the paving construction that night was over. In particular, the vast majority of the Jurchen Aha slaves suffered from night blindness, and a considerable number of people ran into the defense line of the Pou Nu Army in Zhenhu Fort and became prisoners of the Pou Nu Army. Fortunately, the Pou Nu Army treated the Jurchen Aha slaves with preferential treatment and did not treat them as traitors in the Han army flag.

On the verge of the day, the Jurchen commander Beile Yuetuo, wearing red-wrapped white-edged red flag armor, rode a red horse to lead a thousand Jurchen soldiers to the battlefield. They passed through the flat gathering place of Aha slaves and headed towards a mountain called Gushan southwest. This mountain was five miles away from the battlefield and could see the battlefield east of Zhenhu Fort. Except for the hidden mountain road to the northeast of Zhenhu Fort, other places could be seen clearly at a glance. The range of the Po Slave Army* was of course clear, so they chose this mountain as the command platform.

However, Yuetuo also knew that there was a risk in command here. If the Pou Nu Army gathered a large army to fight back, this command highland would be a Jedi. There was no need to use too many soldiers and horses, just one thousand-man team of the Pou Nu Army could surround this Gushan with three cliffs. In case of an emergency, Yuetuo specially placed escape ropes on the southeast and west sides of the Gushan Mountain, and arranged seven or eight hundred red flags, red chess and one hundred white chess soldiers on the gentle slopes on the north.
Chapter completed!